NST2601 Notes:
Assignment 1:
QUESTION 1 [10 marks]
In your own words, explain what you understand by the following terms:
a) Indigenous Knowledge
The following factors are the best ways to define indigenous knowledge: people,
place/context, language, knowledge, culture, practices, and dynamism. This word
can be interpreted in diverse ways at various places. Indigenous Knowledge can
be best described in the following terms, people, place/content. Language,
knowledge, culture, practices, and dynamism. This is the knowledge that local
community members gathers and make a living out of it.
b) Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
In order to address the issue of the inadequate integration of the cultural-social
and canonical-academic components of natural science and technology
education, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), a comprehensive framework of
thinking about our local context, was developed.
This is local knowledge that have been developed within Indigenous societies. It
is independent of and prior to the advent of the modern scientific knowledge
system. This knowledge developed through few experiments, and it was passed
on from generation to generation.
c) Traditional Knowledge
Knowledge systems ingrained in local, indigenous, or regional cultures' cultural
traditions.
Traditional Knowledge is skills that are developed and sustained. It is passed on
from generation to generation. This forms part the traditions. People in rural
areas have developed their own knowledge, and their knowledge system works
for them, so they do not interact with other knowledge systems.
d) Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and
Refers to the continuously expanding knowledge that native and local populations
have amassed over hundreds or thousands of years via close interaction with the
environment.
This is knowledge and skills that have been developed through direct contact with
the environment. This also describes the knowledge of local resources. It is the
body of natural history that is built up by nature.
e) Traditional Environmental Knowledge.
Traditional ecological knowledge is defined as a body of information, practice,
and belief about how living things, including humans, interact with one another
Assignment 1:
QUESTION 1 [10 marks]
In your own words, explain what you understand by the following terms:
a) Indigenous Knowledge
The following factors are the best ways to define indigenous knowledge: people,
place/context, language, knowledge, culture, practices, and dynamism. This word
can be interpreted in diverse ways at various places. Indigenous Knowledge can
be best described in the following terms, people, place/content. Language,
knowledge, culture, practices, and dynamism. This is the knowledge that local
community members gathers and make a living out of it.
b) Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
In order to address the issue of the inadequate integration of the cultural-social
and canonical-academic components of natural science and technology
education, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), a comprehensive framework of
thinking about our local context, was developed.
This is local knowledge that have been developed within Indigenous societies. It
is independent of and prior to the advent of the modern scientific knowledge
system. This knowledge developed through few experiments, and it was passed
on from generation to generation.
c) Traditional Knowledge
Knowledge systems ingrained in local, indigenous, or regional cultures' cultural
traditions.
Traditional Knowledge is skills that are developed and sustained. It is passed on
from generation to generation. This forms part the traditions. People in rural
areas have developed their own knowledge, and their knowledge system works
for them, so they do not interact with other knowledge systems.
d) Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and
Refers to the continuously expanding knowledge that native and local populations
have amassed over hundreds or thousands of years via close interaction with the
environment.
This is knowledge and skills that have been developed through direct contact with
the environment. This also describes the knowledge of local resources. It is the
body of natural history that is built up by nature.
e) Traditional Environmental Knowledge.
Traditional ecological knowledge is defined as a body of information, practice,
and belief about how living things, including humans, interact with one another
